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Strategy 7-4:

Identify the Minute-Taker wasters.

“ME WASTE TIME?”

You have 86,400 seconds at your disposal every day. You decide how you will use
those seconds. What really impedes time effectiveness is the Minute-Taker wasters. The
small things that creep into our day which eat up seconds, which turn into minutes, which
turn into hours, which turn into days, ad infinitum. How do people waste time? If we can
identify the Minute-Taker wasters then we can develop an effective plan for removing the
operational success blockers.

MINUTE-TAKER WASTERS

Shuffling paper

Self-interruptions

Coffee breaks

Today Looking for things
is a Sloppy desk
great Terrible note-taking
day Forgetfulness
Piles of “stuff” on desk

Not having stock of regularly used items

Stock-piling junk

Messy drawers

Borrowing things we should have on our desks

Telephone tag

Interruptions

Procrastinating

Getting going after interruptions

Meetings running on and on

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Day-dreaming
Rescheduling appointments missed
Having to do something over
Looking for things in the middle of a task
Too many ‘to do’ lists
Transferring tasks from ‘to do’ list to ‘to do’ list
Television
Poor planning
Not scheduling enough time